Sunday, 14 June 2009

invitation!

i am happy to announce that i shall take a break from the Floating Bridge (or the Kingdom of the Bridges without Proper Support, a more pragmatic name that was suggested to me in the flow of the last post's reactions :-) to answer Manuela's incredible invitation to spend a week on her blog. I haven't been aware of the concept "blog guest" - are you? -, but i must confess i am truly excited and enthusiastic about everything it implies: bond, trust, shared creativity, openness, dialogue.

i think this sums us pretty much everything. oh, and i have to add only this: Manuela made coffee, i will make tea as well, we'd be so happy if you joined the party (b, i think we can even find some biscuits/cakes/rolls for you somewhere :-)

Hi Wayne, now i have to confess i am in big trouble, i hadn't even known what a mojito was! let's wait for Manuela to wake up, and if she doesn't know how to make one, then i guess you will have to take care of it yourself! :-)(i am curious!!!)

b, i think you wrote at the same time with Manuela, who in her generosity tries to protect you from my jokes :-) but, this is true: romanians really love to do that, they stuff their guests with food until these are about to expire, and then start all over again. come and dare to visit, if you don't believe me :-)

well, actually this wanted to be an invitation for you guys as well, to come over and play our colour-week game, but i see many of you understood only that i was taking a break from here, my poor choice of words must be to blame! :-)

Zuma, hi :-)thank you for reassuring me, i had already imagined a thousand possible scenarios, just to give you an example, that you have perhaps driven off a cliff or been knifed by burglars in a dark alley. glad to hear everything is ok, though it is not easy to give up the entertainement provided by such dramatic novels in my head :-P (you get of course rescued on the last page, i should add :-)

oh - and i had only imagined that staying on the floating bridge might prove not that safe - but perhaps you are right, and everything connected with floating bridges is not safe and should be avoided at all cost :-)

not so much, one is doomed to spend time on floating bridges as normal ones just get you from here to there, with neither here nor there being too exciting ;) but sometimes there comes such storm that it looks like bridge will break under your weight - so it might be better to jump off. Of course there is a drawback of falling and inability to climb back, frustration of the absence of dreams and so on ;)

Eneles, i think an engineer would reason like this: instead of jumping off, wouldn't it be better to manufacture some 'proper support' for the bridge to resist the storm and thus help it return to its usual floating state? :-) oh, where are the good engineers when one needs them?

however, i must wonder: how come you complain about stone bridges, with your love - no, wrong word - need for solidity? i think they have their charm, and if old chinese poets drunk on dark red wine are not immune to it, you can't be either, at least some things you have in common :-)

Less than a day in paradiseand a thousand years have passed among men.While the pieces are still being laid on the boardAll things have changed to emptiness.Nothing is what it was but the stone bridge.

that depends on the intensity of the storm, in a category five hurricanes there are no engineering solutions (see new orleans story)

stone bridges are also interesting, but what Li Bo didn't know is that chinese will replace all stone bridges by metal ones of the same kind. and only in very rural areas (;)) there remain the old-style bridges.

and it is my priviledge to quote him - for I am going to china in a month (again).

perhaps - but perhaps trying is all that is needed sometimes, instead of jumping off :-)

oh, how wonderful for you - of course i envy you as well :-) - but you will have the most beautiful trip, chinese hotel rooms used to have their charm as well - ah, and interesting gifts for the guests :-)

Eneles, i forgot to ask: where exactly do you go in China? (and also, do you get an email notification when i answer in the comments? just making sure you get everything, from the past as well, not that it is terribly important that you do :-)

I am going to Beijing for a few days and then - didn't I say that I am going to the roof? so yes, Tibet is the most likely thing now. alternative would be - in case I won't get tibet permit - Xi'An /Hwangshan (not the same as huang shan) but I think these are better in winter. why do you ask? ;)

no, I do not, silly blogspot - no threads ;) answer to this - I checked the box with "email followup".